Augustine P. Chas. A Commentary on the new Code of Canon Law. Volume 2

London: B. Herder Book Co. 1918. — 617 p.Clergy and Hierarchy.
Aug. 7th, 1917, the S. Congregation on Seminaries and Studies issued a decree which imposes on teachers of Canon Law the task of explaining the new Code, not only synthetically, but also analytically, by closely following the order and text of the Code itself. The decree also calls for a historical survey, whenever necessary and opportune, of the respective canons. This precisely has been the guiding line along which the writer
taught Canon Law at the Benedictine University in Rome for nine years (1906-1915), until the European conflict closed our international College. Most of that time, therefore, fell within the period of the present codification.